Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oilmen are already complaining about the shortage of control panel operators for automated refineries; these technicians must be part engineer, physicist, chemist and mechanic. General Electric is training 28,000 employees for automation's better jobs, expects the company's average pay to rise 50% to $8,000 in ten years. Though automation will displace some workers, in the long run the U.S. economic problem will not be unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With...
...marathon strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp. neared the 150-day mark last week, hopes for a settlement suddenly rose. A panel consisting of one federal and two state mediators wrapped up a package of compromises and submitted it to company and union. Westinghouse promptly accepted. The International Union of Electrical Workers hesitated for two days. Then it tossed the package back at the mediators. Said President James B. Carey: "Unacceptable...
...panel had recommended a five-year contract stretching to October 1960. Included in the proposal were wage boosts that would have given each worker a minimum 25?-an-hour raise over the five-year period, plus increases in pension and insurance benefits. The proposal also contained a set of rules under which the company could make time studies of workers. All this was fine with the union, but Carey objected that the mediators' plan did not provide for arbitration on possible pay cuts for employees shifted from piecework to hourly pay; some, he said, stood to lose...
...Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. and Richard Harwood, Louisville Times Reporter and '56-'56 Nieman Fellow, will speak in a panel discussion at 8 tonight in Emerson...
Five members of the faculty will join the meeting the next day to discuss the "Implications of Social Class Research for Classroom Teachers." The annual School Board Conference scheduled for March 23 will break up into three panel discussions to consider "The Gifted Child--Today's Neglected Student," "The Regional or Area School," and "What Is the School Committee Member's Responsibility to the Educational Program and the Community...